Improved traveling-bag fastener



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`FRIEDRICH CCELLER., 0E NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, -AssIGNoR To Communsa Y i WALSH, 0E NEWARLFNEW JERSEY.`

Leners Patent No. 103,144, dated May 17, 1870.

' Clfhe -Schedule referred to izi these LettersPtent and making' part cf the same constitute part ofvthis specification, and represent in- Figure 1, a. side View oftheframe, the attachment in position for fastening the two `parts together;

Figure 2, the same, ith the V: tttachment turned so as to permit the opening of the bag;

Figure 3,-a topview as inv the act ofolosing the bag.; and in 1 Figure 4, thesame closed. This invention-relates to an attachment for traveling-bags, as a temporary security or'additonal to the lock, and consistsv in they arrangement of a. cap pivoted to one part of thciframe, and with a notchV in onehedge of the oap, and a stud on the 'other part of the frame, so as to pass int'o the cap throughthe notch; then the-'cap is turned andsecures the stud withinqthe cap. A is, one part, and theother part of the frame of' .a notch, a, in one edge,

a traveling-bag of common construction, hinged together at G in the usual manner.

I) is a cup-shaped disk or cap pivoted -to the part A of the frame, and having a notch, a, formed in one edge, and on the other part-B of the frame a stud, E, is fixed, the end of which is .constructed so as to pass into thefcap through the notch a, as seen in iig..2, and when the twoparts of the bag `are closed the end ot the stud E lies within the cap, so that the cap ml be turned. The flange or edgey of the cap passing over the stud, as seen in'iigs. l and-1, secures the two parts together, or prevents the accidental removal of the stu'd; but when desired to open the bag, return the cap into the position seen in iigs.` 2 and 3; then the bag may be opened, the stud passing out from the cap,

as seen in iig. 3.

I claim` as my inventioni The combination of the cup-.shaped disk D, having the frame, with the stucLE arrangedupon .the other part B of the frame, so that the said stud will pass within the cap, and be secured or released therefrom, substantially as described. l Witnessesz FRIEDRICH COELLER.

A..J. TIBBITs, J. H. SHUMWAY.

and pivoted `to one part A ot' 

